ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES. Abbott (or Gr.), Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar (third edition). A. S., Anglo-Saxon. A. V., Authorized Version of the Bible (1611). B. and F., Beaumont and Fletcher. B. J., Ben Jonson. Camb. ed., "Cambridge edition" of Shakespeare, edited by Clark and Wright. Cf. (confer), compare. Clarke, "Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare," edited by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke (London, n. d.). Coll., Collier (second edition). Coll. MS., Manuscript Corrections of Second Folio, edited by Collier. D., Dyce (second edition). H., Hudson (first edition). Halliwell, J. O. Halliwell (folio ed. of Shakespeare). Id. (idem), the same. K., Knight (second edition). Nares, Glossary, edited by Halliwell and Wright (London, 1859). S., Shakespeare. Schmidt, A. Schmidt's Shakespeare-Lexicon (Berlin, 1874). Sr., Singer. St., Staunton Theo., Theobald. V.. Verplanck. W., White. Walker, Wm. Sidney Walker's Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare (London, 1860). Warb., Warburton. Wb., Webster's Dictionary (revised quarto edition of 1864). Worc., Worcester's Dictionary (quarto edition). The abbreviations of the names of Shakespeare's Plays will be readily understood; as T. N. for Twelfth Night, Cor. for Coriolanus, 3 Hen. VI. for The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth, etc. P. P. refers to The Passionate Pilgrim; V. and A. to Venus and Adonis; L. C. to Lover's Complaint; and Sonn. to the Sonnets. When the abbreviation of the name of a play is followed by a reference to page, Rolfe's edition of the play is meant. The numbers of the lines (except for The Winter's Tale) are those of the "Globe " ed. or of Crowell's reprint of that ed. DRAMATIS PERSONA.-The folio has the following list at the end of the play (cf. Oth. p. 154): Autolicus, a Rogue. Archidamus, a Lord of Bohemia. Perdita, Daughter to Leontes and Her- Other Lords, and Gentiemen, and Ser mione. Paulina, wife to Antigonus. uants. Shepheards, and Shephearddesses. SCENE I.-6. Bohemia. The King of Bohemia. See Macb. p. 239, or Hen. V. p. 159. Hanmer changed Bohemia throughout to "Bithynia ;" but, as stated above (see p. 17), S. followed Greene in making Bohemia a maritime country. Farmer remarks: Corporal Trim's King of Bohemia 'delighted in navigation, and had never a seaport in his dominions;' and my Lord Herbert informs us that De Luines, the prime minister of France, when he was ambassador there, demanded whether Bohemia was an inland country, or 'lay upon the sea.' There is a similar mistake in T. G. of V. relative to that city [Verona] and Milan." Visitation. Cf. iv. 4. 544 and v. I. 90 below. S. does not use visit as a noun. Visitings occurs in Macb. i. 5. 46. 8. Wherein, etc. "Though we cannot give you equal entertainment, yet the consciousness of our good-will shall justify us" (Johnson). 66 II. In the freedom of my knowledge. As my knowledge makes me free to do, or gives me the right to do. Cf. Sonn. 46. 4 : 'the freedom of that right." 14. Unintelligent. Unconscious, not aware; used by S. only here. 22. Such... which. Cf. iv. 4. 738 below: "such secrets in this fardel or box, which none must know," etc. Gr. 278. 25. Encounters. Meetings; as often. See Much Ado, p. 154. Hath. The later folios have "have." Abbott (Gr. 334) explains it as the old "third person plural in th." Cf. R. and F. prol. 8: "Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife;" 66 and see note in our ed. p. 140. We have another instance in i. 2. 1 below; but that is perhaps to be explained by the interposition of star. Royally attorneyed. Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies, etc." (Johnson); or performed by proxy (Schmidt). In the only other instance of attorneyed in S. (M. for M. v. i. 390) it is employed as an attorney. 66 27. That. So that a common ellipsis. Gr. 283. The Coll. MS. needlessly inserts "so "before royally. 28. A vast. The later folios have "a vast sea." Cf. Per. iii. I. I: "Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges." P. 186. 30. Loves. See also Ham. For the plural, see Macb. p. 209 or Ham. p. 177. Cf. peaces in ii. 1. 135 below. 32. Of. See Gr. 172. It is 33. It is. Cf. Macb. i. 4. 58: "It is a peerless kinsman," etc. oftener contemptuous; as in R. and J. iv. 2. 14, A. and C. iii. 2. 6, etc. 34. Into my note. To my knowledge. Cf. T. N. iv. 3. 29: “it shall come to note," etc. (Johnson). 36. Physics the subject. "Affords a cordial to the state Cf. Cymb. iii. 2. 34: "it doth physic love" (that is, preserve its health). For the collective use of subject (=people), see Ham. p. 173. SCENE II.-1. The watery star. The " watery moon" of M. N. D. |